Improved bureau



tuitrd fnd-rs @anni @Mitica CHENEY KILBURN, OF PHILADELPHIA,PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO KILBURN & GATES, OF SAME PLACE.

Letters Patent No. 106,941, datedAugust 30, l1870.

IMPRovnD BUREAU.

The Schedule referred to in 4these Letters Patent and making part of thesame I, CHENEY KILBURN, of Philadelphia, county of' Philadelphia.,Stateof Pensylvania, have invented an Improvement in Bureaus, ot' whichthe following is a specification.

.Na-ture and Object of the Invention.

My invention relates to an improvement on the invention for whichLetters :Patent were allowed to me onthe 20th day of July, A. D. 1870,and consists of a certain combination ot parts in which thumb-screws,inserted through the top ot' the bureau, from below, into the standardsof a looking-glass, are rendered available as a means of receiving thebox or boxes which form the base of said standards, and also of securinga detachable top to a bureau.

'Ihe object of xny invention is to avoid the use of glue, nails, orscrews, by which boxes have been usually secured to bureaus; also, tofacilitate the detachment of the looking-glass standards and the boxesprior to packing the bureausl for transportation, andy to afford readymeans of securing these. parts together. Description of the.Accompanying Drawing.

Figure 1 is a sectional perspective view of a bureau with myimprovements;

Figure 2, a vertical section of part of the same drawn to an enlargedscale; and

Figure 3, a sectional view of the parts illustrated in fig. 2, detachedfrom each other. l

Genera-Z Description.

A represents the top of a bureau;

B B B, the drawers; and

I), the looking-glass hung to standards E.

It has been usual to provide these standards with screws of woodprojecting through the top A of the bureau, and furnished beneath thesame with wooden nuts, a. very unstable mode of fastening, which Iimproved upon by insexting the stem of a thumb-screw from'below the topof the bureau into each standard, as desclibed in my application for apatent-'led February 15, 1870, and allowed July 20, 1870.

In my present improvement I further increase the utility of thesethumb-screws by making them mediums for securing the small boxes, whichform the bases of the standards, to the top of the bureau.

In the present instance these boxes c a have each a hinged lid, but theymaybe so constructed as to receive small drawers.

Ihe standards E rest on the permanent portions d of the boxes, and thestem of a thumb-screw, e, passes through the top of the bureau into eachstandard, as shown in the drawing.

If the bureau hasv a plain wooden top, a. simple washer, f, mayintervene between the head of lthe screw and the under side of the saidtop; but if the latter be of marble or slate, a strip, h, of wood,fbrming a permanent part of the bureau, may form a support for ther'aarble, the washer in this case intervening between the said strip andthe head of the screw, which thus serves to secure both the standards,box,- and marble to the bureau.

In some cases one long box extends nearly from end to end of the bureau,iu place of the two smaller boxes a a, and this long box, togetherv withthe looking-glass standards, can be secured to the bureau in in themanner described above.

A looking-glass is in some cases hung to one frame instead of toseparate standards, and this frame may be secured in the mannerdescribed above.

Not only may the use ot' glue, nails, and screws, heretofore used insecuring boxes to the tops of bureaus be dispensed with, by adopting myinvention, but the box or boxes a, and looking-glass standards or frame,can be more readily detached from each other, and more readily secured..together than in ordinary bureaus.

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witnesses. v

- CHENEY KILBURN.

Witnesses:

. WM. A. STEEL,

LoUIs BoswnLL.

